Baz Bamigboye: Take That win lucrative film deal

Comeback stars Take That have topped their chart success with a lucrative Hollywood film deal.

They have written the main song for Matthew Vaughn's spellbinding fantasy adventure movie Stardust.

It marks the first time in their careers that the group has created a song for a picture.

The news, revealed here for the first time, comes as lead singer Gary Barlow instructed lawyers to redouble their efforts to halt production of a stage musical called Never Forget which features numbers written by him at the height of Take That's fame in the Nineties.

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Comeback stars Take That have topped their chart success with a lucrative Hollywood film deal

He called the situation over his songs a "bloody disaster".

Long before the band considered reforming, Barlow handed over the rights to several songs "to an individual who I trusted".

"I'm furious and I'll do everything legally possible to to stop the show, which has the smell of the end of the pier about it.

"I thought it was going to be a collaboration and it would be with classy people but this individual formed a company with other people to produce the musical and then he left the project," the singer-songwriter told me when we met at a special screening of Stardust in New York attended by the film's stars Robert De Niro, Claire Danes and fast-rising leading man Charlie Cox.

Michelle Pfeiffer and Sienna Miller also appear in the film, which is expected to become a blockbuster hit, and which opens here in October.

Interestingly, although Never Forget begins a regional tour in Cardiff in July, there seemed to be some doubt last night as to whether it would come to the West End.

Talks between the show's producers and a prominent theatre owner faltered and it could be because of pending legal action.

There were no sour notes however over Take That's work on Stardust and with Vaughn.

"It was amazing," Barlow recalled. "I went to see the film with the rest of the group and we came out at 11 in the morning and we loved it."

Vaughn asked if they would be interested in writing a song for the picture. "We live near each other in London so I said: "Come along to our place at six and I'll give you our answer."

Matthew came at six and in that time we'd composed and written a song. We played it for him and now it's going to be in the film.'

You could say it only takes a minute - oh, all right, seven hours then - but pretty good going. The number's called Rule The World which at this rate, Take That could well do - although, even for them, it might take a little longer than seven hours.